Jester
A court fool — a figure licensed to speak the uncomfortable truth under cover of a joke.
A jester in a dream is the dream's image of a figure licensed to speak uncomfortable truth under the cover of a joke. The jester does not have rank; the jester has the privilege of saying what the courtiers cannot, because the form is comic and the speaker is officially not serious. The dream brings the jester when someone in your life — a friend, a colleague, the joking side of yourself — is currently telling a real truth in a form that lets the room receive it without having to admit it heard it directly. A jester heard and quietly understood is the dream affirming the use of the disguised speech. A jester who has been laughed at and then forgotten, the message filed as entertainment only, is the dream noting that the truth in the joke has been let through the door and out the other side without being received.